If you are looking for an air mattress to help a family member to avoid getting bed sores or just to give them a more comfortable bed experience, this is the air mattress for you. My daddy is bed bound and this helped him tremendously while he was able to live at home. He said it made the being bed bound experience not anywhere near as uncomfortable as it could have been. We had gotten a mechanical air mattress through his doctor. And he didn't like it. He preferred this.